[psengu07]

Hi there,

I have a partitioned hard drive- C and D, and recently for some reason when I go into my computer and double click the D drive, it says "D:\ Access is denied" .

This doesn't happen with my C drive.

I can still open the D drive folder, but only by right clicking and going down to "Open". That's the other thing- in the right click menu it has Open as the default thing to do when double clicked, then further down it has Open, which is what i have to click on to get into the D drive. Why are there two options for opening? C drive doesn't have that second Open thing...

Also sometimes when i try to open D drive, it comes up with the "Open with..." window, as if its a program and Windows doesn't know what to open it with.

And before any of these problems started to occur, I could open the D drive by double clicking as per usual, but it would take an unusually long time to load, and would open in a new window.

Any help?

[Elvandil]

Try:

File, Drive, and Folder Open Fix

[psengu07]

sorry I don't get what I'm supposed to do...

[Elvandil]

Download the file, unzip it, and double-click the reg file inside.

[psengu07]

Tried it, it didnt work- it still says "Access Denied"

[Elvandil]

What is on the D: drive?

Did it fix the Open options? Did you restart explorer?

[psengu07]

The D: drive is the larger of the two partitions, so I keep most of my files there- I've relocated the My Documents folder, folders with photos, plus larger program files. C: only really has the system files and default program files stored on it.

folder_open.vbs didn't make any difference to anything. I've tried restarting explorer. It still says:
when double clicked.

[Elvandil]

OK. Is it a permissions issue?

How does that drive appear in Disk Management (Right-click Computer, Manage, Disk Management)?

Pro or Home?

Did you get a mesasge that the reg file had merged successfully? Have you restarted?

[psengu07]

This is what the drive looks like in Disk Management:


I'm using XP pro. The reg file said "Finished! Folders will now Open when double clicked".
I've tried restarting. The problem is very recent, it's been at least opening in a new window previously to this.

[Elvandil]

It looks OK.

Right-click the drive in My Computer. Do you have a Security tab? If so, what permissions are there?

If you don't have the tab, go to Control Panel, Folder Options, View tab, and uncheck the simple file-sharing option and apply.

[psengu07]

I went to the security tab, it said the folder was shared, but I don't remember what the share name said- I clicked "Do not share this folder". But it hasn't fixed the problem, neither has unchecking the simple file-sharing option.

[Elvandil]

Do you have full read and write access under Security?

[adamthehacker]

Easy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Control panel >> folder settings >> view tab
disable using simple file sharing
then right click on the disk >> sercurity >> advanced >>owner
and you know the rest